![]() ![]() But finally, after giving birth, Rachel tells Mark off, throws a pie in his face, and instantly winds up in the arms of an adorable New Yorker for an upbeat fadeout. when Mark seems interested in a reconciliation. She rejoins her therapy group-which gets robbed. with tot Sam while reviewing her marriages (#1 was ""a low-grade lunatic who kept hamsters""). Spurred on by celebrity-shrink Vera (""every so often she has to fly off to co-host Merv Griffin""), pregnant Rachel storms off to her beloved N.Y.C. Mark confesses-but doesn't offer to give Thelma up. ![]() ![]() The wisecracking narrator is cookbook-writer/TV-celebrity Rachel Samstat, who one day realizes that her Washington-columnist husband Mark Feldman, the ultimate ""Jewish prince,"" is having an affair with Thelma Rice, giant wife of a blitheringly neurotic Undersecretary of State. But essentially this slender first novel is just a framework for an Ephronesque series of stand-up-comic routines, journalistic one-liners, and movie-farce-style vignettes-an occasionally funny but edgily unsatisfying tsimmes. ![]() Wife Discovers Husband's Infidelity, Must Decide What To Do: that's the routine sliver of plot here. ![]()
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